Name: Complex Facilitation - A Sampler of Theory from Will Evans
Start: 2016-02-08T17:30:00+11:00
End: 2016-02-08T20:30:00+11:00
Location: 2 Southbank Blvd, PwC Offices

Confirming the venue and a big thank you to PwC for hosting this session.

Will has spoken to us a couple of times before and this time will focus on the theory behind some of the complex facilitation techniques and how to reduce the impact of bias when we are looking for innovation.

Will Evans Bio

Will Evans explores the convergence of practice and theory using Lean Systems, Design Thinking, DevOps, and LeanUX with global corporations from NYC to Berlin to Singapore. As Chief Design Officer at PraxisFlow, he works with a select group of corporate clients undergoing Lean and Agile transformations across the entire organization. Will is also the Design Thinker-in-Residence at NYU Stern's Berkley Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Will was previously the Managing Director of TLCLabs, the world's leading Lean Design Innovation consultancy where he brought LeanUX and Design Thinking to large media, finance, and healthcare companies.

Before TLC, he led experience design and research for TheLadders in New York City. He has over 15 years industry experience in design innovation, user experience strategy and research. His roles include directing UX for social network analytics & terrorism modeling at AIR Worldwide, UX Architect for social media site Gather.com, and UX Architect for travel search engine Kayak.com. He worked at Lotus/IBM where he was the senior information architect, and for Curl - a DARPA-funded MIT project when he was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.

He lives in New York, NY, and drinks far too much coffee. He Co-Founded and Co-Chaired the LeanUXNYC conference, Founded the LEAD SUMMIT NYC, and was also the User Experience track chair for the Agile 2013 and Agile 2014 conferences.

Recent Speaking Engagements:
Lean Agile Scotland 2015
Agile 2015
Lean Transformation Summit 2015
LeanUX NYC 2015
KMWorld 2015
DevDays Poland 2015

Recent Talks:
A3 Thinking: The Art & Science of Problem Solving
Introducing The Theory of Constraints
Exploration & Exploitation Mindsets in Design-Driven Enterprises
Redesigned to Disrupt: A Systems Thinking Approach
Design Thinking: Beyond the Bounds of Your Own Head
Introduction to Kanban for Creative Agencies
Framing LeanUX: Epistemology and Complexity in Product Design
Introduction to Lean Branding

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